ABEC News for
DECEMBER 2008
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Dear Colleagues,
The Council of the
Association of Bulgarian Engineers in Canada – ABEC is sending a most cordial
Christmas Greetings to all Bulgarian Engineers in Canada.
Wishing you peace, joy and friendship for the Christmas Season and throughout
the New Year!!!
Let the ambitions and perseverance lead to fulfillment of our family’s and
professional dreams. Merry Christmas and a Happy 2009 New Year!!
Vessela Koleda!
Pauline Loultcheva Lawrence President of ABEC Tel: 905 832-4451
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Nikolay Paskalev Vice President of ABEC Tel: 416 839-1569
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HRDC Labour Market Information
Visit the Career Resources for valuable resume writing tips, networking tips , interviewing tips and more.
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Canadian Recruiting Firm WWW Site Links http://www.directoryofrecruiters.com/wwwsites.html
Stoakley-Dudley Consultants Ltd.
The Toronto Star Careers - a workopolis.com Community
Workopolis.com - Canada's Biggest Job Site
The Liberal and The Era Banner
CSME -- Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering
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http://www.applicants.ca/joblistings.html
http://www.maple-reinders.com/careers.php
http://toronto.ieee.ca/careers/index.html
Canadian
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Canadian
Career Click Jobs Listing http://working.canada.com/toronto/index.html
Canadian Technical Employment
Network CTEN) http://www.cten.ca
T-Net -
British Columbia
http://www.bctechnology.com/frameset_emp.html
http://engineering.thingamajob.com
http://www.infomine.com/careers/
http://www.pythonrecruiting.ca:8080/careers.html
http://www.northernminerjobs.com
This Job hunting list is ours – ABEC’s and is the product of many hours of volunteer work collecting and organizing information for the benefits of our newcomers Colleagues- Bulgarian Engineers.
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From TD
Insurance Meloche Monnex
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Association of Bulgarian Engineers in Canada – ABEC
The Council of the
Association of Bulgarian Engineers in Canada is bringing to the attention of
all Bulgarian Engineers in Ontario, Quebec and Alberta, the signed Agreement
between TD Meloche Monnex and the Coalition “European Engineers”. The Coalition
is formed from the Associations of Bulgarian, Polish, Romanian and Hungarian
Engineers in Canada.
The Group Insurance
Affinity Agreement provided to “European Engineers” by Meloche Monnex allows
the Members to participate at preferred group rates to obtain home, automobile,
travel and small business (micro enterprise) insurance coverage for the
members, their spouses and children living at
home.
See -
http://www.melochemonnex.com –
“We'd like to
introduce you to the logical solution in home and auto insurance. TD Meloche Monnex partners with more than 250
associations, offering professionals and alumni preferred group rates*,
high-quality insurance products and exceptional service. Your special status
gets you outstanding value! To discover more about your insurance coverage
options with TD Meloche Monnex, visit
our website and get a free online quote now.”
The program
conditions, administration, marketing, confidentiality, indemnifications are
similar for all professional and alumni association programs (CIM, PEO).
The TD Meloche Monnex
home and auto program offered to groups is underwritten by Security National
Insurance Company and distributed by Meloche Monnex Financial Services Inc. Due
to provincial legislation, the automobile insurance program is not offered in
British Columbia, Saskatchewan or Manitoba. The group auto insurance rates are
not applicable in Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island
Only Members of ABEC
in good standing will have their name activated into the group of the “European
Engineer”. To be a Member of ABEC you must possess a Degree from Technical
Engineering Universities and paid-up membership fees of 50 dollars CDN.
New Members are always
welcome!
www.abec.ca
Please communicate
this announcement to your friends, colleagues and compatriots, so more
Bulgarian Engineers could use this Insurance Program.
The Bulgarian
Engineers are highly knowledgeable professionals working with honesty,
competence and integrity all over the world.
This Program may be
for you!
Find out more...
From the ABEC Council
Association of Bulgarian Engineers in Canada
The Council of the
Association of Bulgarian Engineers in Canada is happy to inform all Bulgarian
Engineers that we reached an Agreement in Principle with Mr. Tchavdar Elenkov, CFP, for Employee Group Benefits Program.
Our goal is to enable
all Self
employed Bulgarian Engineers - members of ABEC to have access to a
benefits program that will cover them, their employees and their families with
a Life, Accidental Death and Dismemberment and Extended Health Care (Basic
Plan). This program can be upgraded by adding the optional Dental Care
coverage (Basic + Dental Plan). Disability coverage can be added as well,
subject to and according to the insurance companies’ underwriting requirements
(Comprehensive Plan).
Every plan can be
individually tailored to meet the specific needs of your business and your
budget.
According to our
Agreement in principle, Mr. Tchavdar Elenkov will offer 7% (seven percent)
discount on the Basic Plan or the Basic + Dental Plan. This offer is valid exclusively for
companies owned by members of ABEC, registered in Ontario, employing from 2 to 24
people. The discount applies equally for all companies notwithstanding the
structure of their individually tailored Group Benefits Plan (Basic Plan or
Basic + Dental Plan).
By setting up a Group
Benefits Plan for your business you de facto increase your own salary and the
salaries of your employees without having to pay additional income tax on the
increase, additional CPP and EI contributions, Union Dues etc., and the
premiums for the plan are tax deductible.
Other advantages of
the Group Benefits Plans are:
- attracting and retaining the best employees;
- improving employee morale;
- promoting health and wellness;
To learn more about
the offered Group Benefits Plans and to download the Request for Quotation Form
you can visit
http://www.elenkov.com/group_insurance.html . You can contact Tchavdar Elenkov at
http://www.elenkov.com/contact.html and ask for more
information in both Bulgarian and English Languages.
Please communicate
this announcement to your friends, colleagues and compatriots, so that more Self employed Bulgarian
Engineers could use this Employee Group Benefits Program.
The Council of ABEC
does not assume any responsibilities, liabilities or credit for any claims
otherwise stated or implied herein this endorsement.
From the Council of ABEC
*** Health Spending
Account
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A New Health Spending
Account
plan which can convert all of everyone’s medical expenses into a 100% tax
deductable Business
expenses
instead, is now available.
The Health Spending
Account will become a special trust account, administered by a third party
organization.
For more information
about the Health Spending Account you can visit
the web site
of Mr. Tchavdar Elenkov
http://www.elenkov.com/health_spending_accounts.html
or you can call him
at 416 459-5679.
NEWS
Burying the Greenhouse Gas
by
Deborah Halber
Boston MA (SPX) Nov 27, 2008
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Schematic that illustrates the
application of MIT's new mathematical model to the sequestration of carbon
dioxide in the Powder River basin, between the statesof
Wyoming and Montana. Shown are a plan view (left) and avertically
magnified cross section of the basin (right). Carbon dioxide is injected from
a line-drive array of wells (black line) fora
period of decades. The extent of the CO2 plume at the end of theinjection period is shown in dark blue. After
injection, the plumecontinues to migrate in the
direction of the regional groundwater flow(indicated
by black arrows). During this process, part of the CO2 is trapped by
capillary forces and left behind in the form of immobile blobs. The amount of
CO2 injected in the basin is designed such that the footprint of the plume
when all the CO2 is trapped (light blue) remains within the boundaries of the
basin. Image / Michael L. Szulczewski/Ruben Juanes; MIT |
To prevent
global warming
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researchers and policymakers are exploring a variety of options to
significantly cut the amount of carbon dioxide that reaches the atmosphere. One
possible approach involves capturing greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide at
the source - an electric
power plant
, for example - and then injecting them underground.
While theoretically promising, the technique has never been tested in a full-scale industrial operation. But now MIT engineers have come up with a new software tool to determine how much CO2 can be sequestered safely in geological formations.
The work will be reported Nov. 18 at the 9th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT-9), to be held Nov. 16-20 in Washington, D.C.
According to the 2007 MIT study, "The Future of Coal," and other sources, capturing CO2 at coal-burning power plants and storing it in deep geological basins will mitigate its negative effects on the atmosphere.
However, injecting too much CO2 could create or enlarge underground faults that may become conduits for CO2 to travel back up to the atmosphere, said Ruben Juanes, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering (CEE) and one of the authors of the work.
"Our model is a simple, effective way to calculate how much CO2 a basin can store safely. It is the first to look at large scales and take into account the effects of flow dynamics on the stored CO2," he said.
Already Juanes and co-author CEE graduate student Michael L. Szulczewski have applied their model to the Fox Hills Sandstone in the Powder River basin straddling Montana and Wyoming. They found that the formation would hold around 5 gigatons of CO2 - more than half of all the CO2 emitted by the United States each year.
A geological basin is a large underground bowl between 100 and 1,000 kilometers wide and 5,000 kilometers deep that has filled over millennia with layers of sand, fine-grained clays, and other sediments that are eventually consolidated into porous rock. Some of the layers contain brine and are called deep saline aquifers. CO2 would be injected into the aquifers through wells.
The MIT model predicts how much a plume of CO2 will migrate from its injection well and the path it is likely to take due to underground slopes and groundwater flow.
"A lot of people have done studies at small scales," Szulczewski said. "If we're going to offset emissions, however, we're going to inject a lot of CO2 into the subsurface. This requires thinking at the basin scale."
"Despite the fact that our model applies at the basin scale, it is very simple. Using only pen and paper, you take geological parameters such as porosity, temperature and pressure to calculate storage capacity," Szulczewski said.
"Other methods suffer from major shortcomings of accuracy, complexity or scale."
Juanes studies a phenomenon called capillary trapping, through which CO2, liquefied by the pressure of the Earth, is trapped as small blobs in the briny water (picture bubbles of oil in vinegar). The CO2 dispersed throughout the basin's structural pores eventually dissolves and reacts with reservoir rocks to precipitate out into harmless carbonate minerals.
CO2 has been sequestered in small pilot projects in Norway, Algeria and elsewhere. In 2004, 1,600 tons of CO2 were injected 1,500 meters into high-permeability brine-bearing sandstone of the Frio formation beneath the Gulf coast of Texas. Current proposals call for injecting billions of tons within the continental United States.
Solar Thermal Market Growing
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Staff Writers
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Customer attitudes about solar thermal systems are also becoming more optimistic. The combination of solar thermal systems becoming more affordable and noticeably cutting customers' energy bills has improved the public perception of this technology. |
The Solar
Thermal Systems (STS) market for hot water and heating has changed considerably
over the past few years in Europe as market shares spread into new countries.
In 2003, close to 80% of the solar thermal market in operation was concentrated
in Germany, Greece and Austria.
Just a few years later, these same countries only hold 55%, making room for countries like Spain, Italy and France that previously only held about 10% of the total market share each. Now France, Italy and Spain are among the fastest growing solar thermal markets in Europe.
Supported by government legislation, consumer attitudes, and manufacturers' increasing production, Frost and Sullivan believes this combination is a strong predictor of medium and long term market growth.
"Within the past few years, all circumstances are very encouraging for the continuation of the STS growth in the European market. This growth is no longer exclusively ensured by a few leading countries, such as Germany and Austria, but by new countries like Spain, Italy, and France, and even Portugal and the UK," notes Frost and Sullivan Hammam Ahmed, Research Analyst.
Motivated by meeting their national and international commitments to decrease dependency on fossil fuel and create more jobs, many European governments are spurring on domestic markets through a number of incentive programmes, providing support for R and D, and raising public awareness. The solar thermal market is being increasingly supported by these governments.
Financial incentives, lessoning the burden of petitioning for building permission are ways governments have been stimulating STS growth. At times European governments have gone as far as introducing new legislation that requires or goads installing solar systems in buildings, either under construction or being renovated. By softening regulations, governments will continue to have a positive impact in the long term.
Customer attitudes about solar thermal systems are also becoming more optimistic. The combination of solar thermal systems becoming more affordable and noticeably cutting customers' energy bills has improved the public perception of this technology.
Public support is directly related to the growth of the STS market, as the largest sector is residential, especially single family homes, which account for almost 80% of the total market. As the public continues to search for affordable and effective alternative energy, the residential sector will continue to grow as public support does.
Finally, over the past few years many solar thermal system manufacturers significantly increased their production. These expansions are not exclusive to solar thermal system manufacturers, but traditional heating suppliers are also getting a piece of the action and including solar thermal systems in their range.
In his research, Hammam Ahmed gives an example from the UK, where some boiler manufacturers are starting to include solar thermal system along with their products, as a supplement. This kind of promotion further propels the STS market forward.
In the past five years, the STS market has overcome a lot of change and, even in the midst of a receding global economy, seems unscathed. Considering all of the elements that shape the STS market, future growth is widely anticipated.
Hornet Celebrates 30th Anniversary Of First Flight
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Hornet_Celebrates_30th_Anniversary_Of_First_Flight_999.html
by
Staff Writers
Patuxent
River MD (SPX) Nov 26, 2008
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Currently, 636 Legacy Hornets are part of 62 active, Reserve, training and research, development, test and evaluation squadrons within the Navy and Marine Corps fleet. |
The F/A-18
Hornet community celebrated the 30th anniversary of the legacy aircraft's first
flight Nov. 18. The Hornet, introduced as a multimission
aircraft, was designed to replace the Navy's F-4 Phantom and A-7 Corsair II in
each of their respective fighter and attack roles.
"Throughout its 30 years of service in the fleet, it has demonstrated its capability and maintainability," said Capt. Mark Darrah, F/A-18 and EA-18G (PMA-265) program manager.
Darrah noted that the Hornet has proven its multimission capability. He recounted that on the first day of Operation Desert Storm, two Hornets shot down an enemy fighter jet and continued on to destroy their assigned target. During the Kosovo War, Marine F/A-18Ds were used during the rescues of downed U.S. Air Force pilots.
Currently, 636 Legacy Hornets are part of 62 active, Reserve, training and research, development, test and evaluation squadrons within the Navy and Marine Corps fleet. Seven international business partners also fly the Hornet.
The entire F/A-18 family of aircraft, including the Hornet, Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler, commemorated the accumulation of seven million flight hours in July.
"The Super Hornet and Growlers, built on the platform of the Hornet, are destined to continue the 30-year F/A-18 achievement in the future," said Darrah.
Worm 'superglue' may bind human joints
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Russell Stewart said he sees
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http://www.interndaily.com/reports/Worm_superglue_may_bind_human_joints_999.html
Sandcastle
worms using their natural glue as a binder for their homes are a model for University
of Utah researchers creating a synthetic version for humans
University of Utah bioengineers said they hope the synthetic version of this "superglue" can be used within the next few years to repair shattered bones in joints or the face, the university said in a news release
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"You would glue some of the small pieces together," says Russell Stewart, associate professor of bioengineering and senior author of the study. "When you break the top of a bone in a joint, those fractures are difficult to repair because if they are not aligned precisely, you end up with arthritis and the joint won't work anyway."
In lab tests using cow bone pieces from grocery stores, a prototype of the synthetic sea-worm glue performed 37 percent as well as commercial superglue, he said.
Stewart said he expects the synthetic glue will be tested on animals within a year or two, and tested and used on humans in five to 10 years.
Stewart said he sees the substance being used to glue together during the healing process.
"If a doctor rebuilds a joint with pins and screws, generally weight is kept off that joint until it's healed," Stewart says. "So our goal isn't to rebuild a weight-bearing joint with glue. It is to hold the pieces together in proper alignment until they heal."
Membership fee, due for 2009 year is $ 50 per year
Please send your cheque (making payable to ABEC)
to our Treasurer
Eng. Tonya Bojkova at the address:
Mrs. Tonya Bojkova,
701 Don Mills Road
Apt.2206
Toronto, Ontario,
M3C 1R9
Best Regards to all ABEC Members,
Pauline Loultcheva-Lawrence
pauline_m_lawrence@hotmail.com